Back on 1998-07-26, Don Park wrote:
> The solution is quite simple for the needs of the DOM Core API: Let the
> Node itself be the NodeList so its live and updated as the node changes.
> Spiritual explanation is that 'Live' implies 'Being' (?!?). The problem of
> synchronizing multiple instances of NodeList is best solved by having only
> instance.
That works fine for child-type NodeLists, but not for the results of
getElementsByTagName, which must be live over a whole subtree.
Indeed, the current version of FreeDOM violates the spec and makes
this result static.
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